Lyman Trumbull

Lyman Trumbull (12 October 1813-25 July 1896) was a US Senator from Illinois (R) from 4 March 1855 to 3 March 1873, succeeding James Shields and Richard James Oglesby.

Biography
Lyman Trumbull was born in Colchester, Connecticut in 1813, and he went on to establish a law practice in Greenville, Georgia before moving to Alton, Illinois in 1837. He went on to serve as Secretary of State from 1841 to 1843 and as a justice of the Illinois Supreme Court from 1848 to 1853, and he served as a US Senator from 1855 to 1873. Originally a Democrat, he became a Republican in 1855, and he co-wrote the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery. In 1868, he voted to acquit President Andrew Johnson despite heavy pressure from other Republican senators, and he left the Senate in 1873 to open a legal practice in Chicago. He represented Eugene V. Debs before the US Supreme Court as a member of the Populist Party, and he died in 1896.